Acrolepiopsis lativalvata Gaedike 2016, spec. nov.

• Main Author: Gaedike, Reinhard
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Glyphipterigidae; Acrolepiopsis; Acrolepiopsis lativalvata; North Cape; Stripe; White Patch
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4754402; https://zenodo.org/record/4754402

Acrolepiopsis lativalvata spec. nov. Holotype, ♂, “ RSA, North Cape, Kamieskroon, Farm Windhoek, 16.x.2007, leg. W. Mey;” “Bachtal, ca 2 km oberh. Farmhaus [stream valley, appr. 2 km above farm house];” “Gen. präp. [genitalia slide] Gaedike Nr. 7529;” “Holotypus Acrolepiopsis lativalvata sp. n. det. R. Gaedike 2016;” ZMHB. Derivatio nominis : Named after the broad apical part of the valvae. Diagnosis (Fig. 3): Wingspan 10 mm. Head dark grey, scales with whitish tip; labial palpus with same colouration, segments apically whitish. Scape of antenna dark grey, flagellum ringed, thorax and tegulae with same colouration as head. Forewing with dark grey scales, apically white; at 1/3 on dorsum wedge-shaped white patch, characteristic for the genus, reaching the cell, white are also four thin stripes on costa between 2/3 and apex, the area around the stripes overlaid with white scales. The fringe basally with some minute white dots; fringe with two dark scale-lines. One dark grey-brown patch on costa between 1/2 and the first stripe, another patch on dorsum lateral of the wedge-shaped patch. Hindwing grey. Male genitalia (Figs 14–16): Vinculum laterally narrow, ventrally triangular with a long narrow saccus with rounded tip; valva basally rounded, with long bristles, first third narrowest, the apical part broader, apically truncated with rounded angles; phallus slightly curved, basally broad rounded, narrower towards apex, as long as the entire genitalia apparatus. Female genitalia: Unknown. Remarks : Superficially characterized by scales with white tips and the pattern on apical third of forewing. The broad valvae distinguish the species from the other taxa in this genus. : Published as part of Gaedike, Reinhard, 2016, New and poorly known Acrolepiinae from the Palaearctic, Afrotropical, Neotropical and Oriental regions (Lepidoptera: Glyphipterigidae), pp. 257-264 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 66 (2) on page 259, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.66.2.257-264, http://zenodo.org/record/4754080